If one considers a generation about 20 years, then the statement is true that this is the biggest expansion of government in a generation. Think Bush, the village idiot who gave us 911/Iraq then gave us the Patriot Act, the mortgage lending crisis, the bailouts of 2008. Bush had the FBI going to libraries to check on who was reading book, and basically spying on anti-Iraq war crowd which I happened to be apart of. The village idiot Bush gave us indefinite detention, water boarding, 'rectal fucking hydration', pissing on prisoners, and going after anyone who opposed the regime. I remember Sen. Tom Daschle being interviewed on his tour of South Dakota afraid to call out Bush in an interview per all the things mentioned above. So yes if by that definition this is the biggest government expansion in a decade.
Maybe, but the interview is probably in the C-Span archives from around 2003 I believe. He seemed to me to be very cautious and wanted to spill the beans. Daschle was an old time liberal/labor Democrat. Remember those states out there like N/S Dakota, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota ect were all labor states at the beginning of the 20th century. They were not leftists by any means, but labor and for FDR. It goes back before that to the Granger movement, mostly farmers to begin with, which led to the progressive labor movement.
I think Daschle, based on his interview or how I perceived it, he was between a rock and a hard place. We saw what happened to Senator Paul Wellstone. He had the American legion screaming for him on his opposition to Iraq War. He was Wellstoned and blown up in an airplane because his progressive/liberal stance on war was gaining ground. I personally believe Senators like Daschle and Wellstone were not in on the neocon gig. The PNAC idea that America can go to war anytime without any consequence because as that fat snot Karl Rove said: "We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Remember also Bush/Cheney were threatening these Senators over Iraq. 'You are either with us or against us'...meaning Bush/Cheney not the United States.
If one considers a generation about 20 years, then the statement is true that this is the biggest expansion of government in a generation. Think Bush, the village idiot who gave us 911/Iraq then gave us the Patriot Act, the mortgage lending crisis, the bailouts of 2008. Bush had the FBI going to libraries to check on who was reading book, and basically spying on anti-Iraq war crowd which I happened to be apart of. The village idiot Bush gave us indefinite detention, water boarding, 'rectal fucking hydration', pissing on prisoners, and going after anyone who opposed the regime. I remember Sen. Tom Daschle being interviewed on his tour of South Dakota afraid to call out Bush in an interview per all the things mentioned above. So yes if by that definition this is the biggest government expansion in a decade.
Daschle afraid? He was frigging in on it!!!
Maybe, but the interview is probably in the C-Span archives from around 2003 I believe. He seemed to me to be very cautious and wanted to spill the beans. Daschle was an old time liberal/labor Democrat. Remember those states out there like N/S Dakota, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota ect were all labor states at the beginning of the 20th century. They were not leftists by any means, but labor and for FDR. It goes back before that to the Granger movement, mostly farmers to begin with, which led to the progressive labor movement.
I think Daschle, based on his interview or how I perceived it, he was between a rock and a hard place. We saw what happened to Senator Paul Wellstone. He had the American legion screaming for him on his opposition to Iraq War. He was Wellstoned and blown up in an airplane because his progressive/liberal stance on war was gaining ground. I personally believe Senators like Daschle and Wellstone were not in on the neocon gig. The PNAC idea that America can go to war anytime without any consequence because as that fat snot Karl Rove said: "We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Remember also Bush/Cheney were threatening these Senators over Iraq. 'You are either with us or against us'...meaning Bush/Cheney not the United States.